I want to congratulate Jacqui Smith for her Statement in the Commons just now. Indeed, the way she has conducted herself since her appointment as Home Secretary on Thursday has been hugely impressive. It can't have been easy to be thrown in at the deep end like this, but her public statements have displayed a calmness under fire which she ought to be proud of. They have been a welcome contrast to the macho posturing of her predecessor.
Monday, July 02, 2007
In Praise of Jacqui Smith
I want to congratulate Jacqui Smith for her Statement in the Commons just now. Indeed, the way she has conducted herself since her appointment as Home Secretary on Thursday has been hugely impressive. It can't have been easy to be thrown in at the deep end like this, but her public statements have displayed a calmness under fire which she ought to be proud of. They have been a welcome contrast to the macho posturing of her predecessor.
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She's not the problem. It's the problems she inherits, including a Department which is still not 'fit for purpose.'
Her Mum & Dad used to run our village shop and always struck me as very phlegmatic types, so maybe it's in the genes. She came across as (understandably) nervous at first, but has been more assured over the last couple of days.
Mind you, it's a fairly good batting wicket at the moment. We need to see how she performs when the Home Office makes its first (inevitable) cock-up under her leadership.
Indeed, and a contrast to Patsy Hewitt, who clearly seems to have achieved an NHS where terrorists were welcomed to work as doctors...
Madness..
I agree. Very good start and infinitely better than her predecessor.
Now who is the Shadow Home Secretary again?
what a pity the Labour Party let so many people walk into our country in the first place! Isnt she as a Labour MP directly resonsible for this.
So two of them are Doctors how come three of my newly qualified and dedictaed friends are loooking to move to Australia because they cannot get jobs yet in Hospitals as doctors yet this scum can.
The country is finished and your party has done nothing to help/
Remember Blairs legacy Car Bombs = Blairs Legacy
7/7 = Blairs Legacy
She's been in the job less than a week, has hardly been seen until today's statement, and already you are praising her to the heavens.
Call yourself an opposition? Brown and co must be laughing their heads off at how easy they're having it.
Perhaps you'd like to join his "Government of all the talents?" LOL
SHE is not under fire.
Oh twaddle
I agree she has been impressive and fluent. Unlike Gordon who coldn't think of anything spontaneous to say and had to read someone else's words off an autocue.
Iain said:
"She's never struck me as being completely on top of her brief when she appears on TV."
when she was appointed.
another tory u-turn or just the perils of rushing into print with half-baked opinions?
Half baked or not, at least I put my name to them.
First you're sucking up to the odious and two-faced, English-hater, Yasmin Olibiah-Brown and now you're praising New Labour apparatchik Jacqui Smith.
I know you've already come out in one way Iain but is there summat else you're not letting on about?
Good performance and nice chest - shame she didn't consider the occasion warranted covering it up
Give the lady a standing ovation!
John Reid? Macho? Posturing? Surely not...
to be honest, I don't think she's done any more than is expected.
it seesm to me that the difficult job at the home office is not about coming out with fine words ina crisis (frankly, loads of people could do that) but the day-in day-out leadership required to make the department function properly
does anybody think we should adjust our front bench to take account of the new ministy of justice?
Nice cleavage too.
Whats so hard about saying the bleeding obvious in a portentous way.
Iain are you going soft ?
indede, indede Iain. all boys are rapidly warming to the new matron, esp. after her 'talk to us' in the hall this afternoon - grate camra angle, hem-hem. not that you'd be interested, yore brane is obviously on higher things...
"calmness under fire?
- was it HER who opened up the boot of a Merc and pulled out the mobile phone detonator?
She has spent the last 4 days safely in a bunker asking the Civil Servants what is normally done in this situation.
Iain please don't get fooled by this line of spin.
She was part of the cache of people who have run this country for the past 10 years and let possibly 5 million people come to the UK. Very few of these newcomers' first loyalty is to The Crown/UK, just their own financial wellbeing.
She looked ridiculous - an extremely sober and serious subject and she's showing cleavage?
Inexplically for a serious occasion she was showing a great deal of unnecessary cleavage, however the biggest tits were either side of her: Brown and Straw.
God your pathetic Dale! Grow some balls you eunuch!
Forgive me if this sounds a tad old fashioned, but I prefer my Ministers to dress appropriately when addressing the House. The sight of this latest Nu-Labour brass showing her vile dugs to the world really tells you everything you need to know...
NOTHING HAS CHANGED!
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